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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Elevator7009@lemmy.zip to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

Feel free to replace "friends" with "anyone you know in real life" or even online groups you trust or are close with.

"They":

WOM marketing is highly effective as 88% of consumers trust friend recommendations over traditional media.

and my own personal experience; most games I have bought in the past 10 years have been off of recommendations from r/gamingsuggestions before Reddit went to crap and Lemmy came into existence; and even moreso when it is a personal friend recommending things to me.

Mods, feel free to nuke if this feels too close to advertising or better-suited for !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip (my own community); I mean it more as a discussion piece but I don't run the place.

EDIT: The "not" in the title is optional; I'm asking about both successful and failed recommendations.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago

Stray.

Like, it looked cool and the whole concept was great.

It ends up just being a game of "go here get this come back". Yawn fest.

If you're yawning, there's a great bookshelf in a library in the game that you can curl up and take a little nap in. Being a cat was great and made me want less of the rest of the gameplay. ฅ⁠^⁠•⁠ﻌ⁠•⁠^⁠ฅ

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

I agree with you, it was too much walking Sim for my liking.

Little Kitty Big City is a much more fun cat game in my opinion. Slight mix of collectathon, platformer, puzzle game that does a good job of making you feel like a cat.

[-] Cyberspark@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Funny I had exactly the opposite reaction. It was far too short in a tiny area, I spent far more time battling the controls than solving puzzles, not that the puzzles were hard. I hated the experience unfortunately. There was so many times I thought, why can't I do X, I'm a cat, but the game was locked into it's traditional platforming. I did have a good bit of fun making people do their phones and run away with them, best bit of the game.

[-] DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

This comment has prompted me to but this and will be playing it later tonight. I still loved Stray but as a void keeper, this looks right up my boulevard.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

I saw promotional stuff to it and thought it looked interesting. Then a watched gameplay and there really isn't gameplay. You just walk from one place to another, but you're a cat. I'm fine if other people enjoy that, but I know it's not for me. I'm fine with walking Sims too, but the whole point of those is they're telling a story while you play. Stray technically has a story, but it seems very minimal and not engaging. They're giving you so little to do so you can think ideally. It shouldn't just be a meaningless story that doesn't engage you if the gameplay also doesn't engage you.

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